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Re: Anti-Valentines Day

Well, let's see...

My fiancee who I had been with for 6 years and getting married to in May officially left me at the beginning of January. This past Wednesday she informed me that she is pregnant with the guy she cheated on me with and just for good measure told me that she's more sure about him than she ever was about me.

Re: Anti-Valentines Day

Originally Posted by Rogue52

Well, let's see...

My fiance who I had been with for 6 years and getting married to in May officially left me at the beginning of January. This past Wednesday she informed me that she was pregnant with the guy she cheated on me with and just for good measure told me that she's more sure about him than she ever was about me.

Re: Anti-Valentines Day

Originally Posted by Rogue52

Well, let's see...

My fiancee who I had been with for 6 years and getting married to in May officially left me at the beginning of January. This past Wednesday she informed me that she was pregnant with the guy she cheated on me with and just for good measure told me that she's more sure about him than she ever was about me.

So yeah, screw Valentine's Day.

You're more then welcome to come to ames today, and I'll give you a beer!

Re: Anti-Valentines Day

Originally Posted by Rogue52

Well, let's see...

My fiancee who I had been with for 6 years and getting married to in May officially left me at the beginning of January. This past Wednesday she informed me that she was pregnant with the guy she cheated on me with and just for good measure told me that she's more sure about him than she ever was about me.

So yeah, screw Valentine's Day.

Sorry to hear that man

Oh we will fight, fight, fight for Iowa State, and may her colors ever fly!!! In Accordance with Prophecy

Re: Anti-Valentines Day

The history of it is interesting though. How many people would want to celebrate a wolf wearing God anyway?

The history of Valentine's Day is obscure, and further clouded by various fanciful legends. St. Valentine's Day, as we know it today, contains vestiges of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition. Its roots are obscured by mystery and there are varying opinions about it. Its origins have become themes of many legends.

According to legend, the holiday has its roots in the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalis/Lupercalia, a fertility celebration commemorated annually on February 15. As Christianity came to dominance in Europe, pagan holidays such as Lupercalia were frequently renamed for early Christian martyrs. In 496 AD, Pope Gelasius recast this pagan festival as a Christian feast day circa 496, declaring February 14 to be the feast day of the Roman martyr [COLOR=blue! important][COLOR=blue! important]Saint [COLOR=blue! important]Valentine[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR], who lived in the 3rd century.

Re: Anti-Valentines Day

At that time the Roman Emperor Claudius-II who had issued an edict forbidding marriage. This was around when the heyday of Roman empire had almost come to an end. Lack of quality administrators led to frequent civil strife. Learning declined, taxation increased, and trade slumped to a low, precarious level. And the Gauls, Slavs, Huns, Turks and Mongolians from Northern Europe and Asian increased their pressure on the empire's boundaries. The empire was grown too large to be shielded from external aggression and internal chaos with existing forces. Thus more of capable men were required to be recruited as soldiers and officers. When Claudius became the emperor, he felt that married men were more emotionally attached to their families, and thus, will not make good soldiers. He believed it made the men weak. So to assure quality soldiers, he banned marriage. OR they were trying not to be in the military….

Lupercalia was a very ancient, Roman pastoral festival, observed on February 13 through February 15 to avert evil spirits and purify the city, releasing health and fertility. The Lupercalia was believed in antiquity to have some connection with the Ancient Greek festival of the ArcadianLykaia (from Ancient Greek: λύκος — lykos, "wolf", Latinlupus) and the worship of Lycaean Pan, the Greek equivalent to Faunus, as instituted by Evander.[1]In Roman mythology, Lupercus is a god sometimes identified with the Roman god Faunus, who is the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Pan.[2] Lupercus is the god of shepherds. His festival, celebrated on the anniversary of the founding of his temple on February 15, was called the Lupercalia. His priests wore goatskins. The second-century Christian apologist Justin Martyr mentions an image of "the Lycaean god, whom the Greeks call Pan and the Romans Lupercus,"[3] nude save for the girdle of goatskin, which stood in the Lupercal, the cave where Romulus and Remus were suckled by a she-wolf. There, on the Ides of February, a goat and a dog were sacrificed, and salt mealcakes prepared by the Vestal Virgins were burnt.

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